[Faithful Catholic]

Re: Why Am I Catholic

George, does not God tell us to be strong in our convictions? Does He not want us to guide the lost to Him?

If a person is not a Christian, what are they?

What exactly do you mean by this comment?
Are you attempting to be snide and insult us? Think about it.

Hi Jim, I absolutely agreed that people should have strong convictions about their faith and act on them. Don't need any more Laodiceans. And, yes we should guide the lost to Him. But, as AveMaria has pointed out so well, you do that by love and not with contempt.
The "real Christians" comment was in reply to your note about "true Christians". Since I don't feel any love I don't sense any "true Christian" here. And if what I see here is true Christianity, count me out.
In Christ, George

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: Why Am I Catholic

[Rev. M. Rodimer]

Re: Why Am I Catholic

Hello James, I think that the treatment one gets on this site, if we are not one of you, is most unChristian. It calls to mind the hard heartedness that Jesus found in the Pharisees. Name calling and denigration abound. The real love of Jesus, the humility that Jesus taught may be here but I have not found it, I am sorry to say.

When have we called you Catholics a "generation of vipers"? That's what Jesus called the Pharisees, Sadduccees, and others. Repeatedly. (Matthew 3:7, Matthew 12:34, Matthew 23:33, Luke 3:7)

When did we call you Catholics "dogs"? That's what Jesus called the Canaanite woman. (Matthew 15:22-28)

When did we attack you with physical violence and destroy your belongings for doing your legally-permitted job trading currencies in a location the operators of the real estate in question chose as appropriate? (Mark 11:15)

If you would like us to be more Christ-like, we could certainly call Catholics dogs and vipers. You are the Pharisees of the modern day.

[James Hutchins]

Re: Why Am I Catholic

George, does not God tell us to be strong in our convictions? Does He not want us to guide the lost to Him?

If a person is not a Christian, what are they?

What exactly do you mean by this comment?

So "real Christians" here? God help us.

Are you attempting to be snide and insult us? Think about it.

[Faithful Catholic]

Re: Why Am I Catholic

Hello James, I think that the treatment one gets on this site, if we are not one of you, is most unChristian. It calls to mind the hard heartedness that Jesus found in the Pharisees. Name calling and denigration abound. The real love of Jesus, the humility that Jesus taught may be here but I have not found it, I am sorry to say. If this is a taste of heaven I will be looking elsewhere. It is one thing to be confident in your beliefs, it is quite another to dismiss and abuse people you don't agree with. So "real Christians" here? God help us.
In Christ, George

[James Hutchins]

Re: Why Am I Catholic

Hello AveMaria,
What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this? It looks to me like an uphill battle with little but pride, arrogance and error to meet you along the journey. But I like your focus on love. Maybe that will help. May the angels and saints be with you.
In Christ, George

So you think associating with actual Christians is a bad thing? What about the Bible is incorrect? Because as True Christians(tm), we follow it just as it was written and God intended. Do tell us where Jesus was in error.

[Faithful Catholic]

Re: Why Am I Catholic

Hello AveMaria,
What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this? It looks to me like an uphill battle with little but pride, arrogance and error to meet you along the journey. But I like your focus on love. Maybe that will help. May the angels and saints be with you.
In Christ, George

[Cursed]

Re: Why Am I Catholic

I've never heard of any of this

Yes, I understand. The catholic church isn't especially proud of it's "holy foreskin with miraculous powers," I'd wager it was not mentioned in the pamphlet you read on your church.

Plus Peter was not the first catholic pope.

Plus your pope is not infallible, no matter what he tells you.

Plus he was a Nazi.

Plus your organization is rife with institutionalized pedophilia.

Plus the host isn't magically transformed into the flesh of Jesus Christ for you to eat every Sunday.

Plus you pray to Mary, in direct opposition to biblical teachings. "Hail Mary, full of grace..."

Plus your priest doesn't have the God-given ability to forgive sin.

I could go on and on.

The catholic church is an ABOMINATION.

[Mary Etheldreda]

Re: Why Am I Catholic

I've never heard of any of this

Friend, let me share with you some advice if I may be so bold.

Before you put your belief in something, know what it is.

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

Re: Why Am I Catholic

Peter was the first pope of the Catholic Church

Boy, are you a mass of ignorance! You have been misled by the Servants of the Anti-Chirst, the vicar of Rome.

The word pope derives from Greek πάππας meaning "Father". In the early centuries of Christianity, this title was applied, especially in the east, to all bishops and other senior clergy, and later became reserved in the west to the Bishop of Rome, a reservation made official only in the 11th century. The earliest record of the use of this title was in regard to the by then deceased Patriarch of Alexandria, Pope Heraclas of Alexandria (232–248).

[Redeemed Papist]

Re: Why Am I Catholic

I've never heard of any of this

It's a bit embarrassing for the Mary Hailers in this day and age to be seen as having a history of believing in the most ridiculous nonsense that was just made up to attract Pilgrims as a sort of tourist scam.

[dylan mcmullen]

Re: Why Am I Catholic

Cathlics love to add all kinds of fairy tails to their religion. Take for example the Rings of Saturn, once taught to be the foreskin of Baby Jesus Himself!

During the late 17th century, Catholic scholar and theologian Leo Allatius (Allacci Leone ) published the treatise De Praeputio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Diatriba (“Discussion concerning the Prepuce of our Lord Jesus Christ”) in which he proposed that the Holy Foreskin had ascended into heaven at the same time as Jesus, and had become the recently observed rings of Saturn.

(They also have an obsession with Jesus' little willie, parading what they thought was His foreskin in Calcata, a clifftop medieval village about 30 miles north of Rome every year until 1983)


http://theholyprepuce.tumblr.com/day/2012/01/01

I've never heard of any of this

[WilliamJenningsBryan]

Re: Why Am I Catholic

...
(They also have an obsession with Jesus' little willie, parading what they thought was His foreskin in Calcata, a clifftop medieval village about 30 miles north of Rome every year until 1983)


http://theholyprepuce.tumblr.com/day/2012/01/01

The thief probably thought it could cure erectile dysfunction. The cathylicks are always parading around dead body parts of "saints" – they call them "relics".

…
For centuries, on the 1st of January, the Holy Foreskin was paraded through the Italian town of Calcata. This practice continued until 1983, when the Holy Prepuce was stolen.

http://theholyprepuce.tumblr.com/day/2012/01/01

[Mary Etheldreda]

Re: Why Am I Catholic

It doesn't say that in the Bible.

Cathlics love to add all kinds of fairy tails to their religion. Take for example the Rings of Saturn, once taught to be the foreskin of Baby Jesus Himself!

During the late 17th century, Catholic scholar and theologian Leo Allatius (Allacci Leone ) published the treatise De Praeputio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Diatriba (“Discussion concerning the Prepuce of our Lord Jesus Christ”) in which he proposed that the Holy Foreskin had ascended into heaven at the same time as Jesus, and had become the recently observed rings of Saturn.

(They also have an obsession with Jesus' little willie, parading what they thought was His foreskin in Calcata, a clifftop medieval village about 30 miles north of Rome every year until 1983)

http://theholyprepuce.tumblr.com/day/2012/01/01

[Zechariah Smyth]

Re: Why Am I Catholic

Peter was the first pope of the Catholic Church

It doesn't say that in the Bible.

Stop listening to your child-molesting "priests" and read it!!!



Yours in Christ (NOT THE POOPY-HOLE POPE),

Z. Smyth